YQL Geo Library and Introduction to Geo Hacking talk
Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at 1:42 pmI am right now in Atlanta, Georgia for the Georgia Tech University Hack and one of the hot technologies we want to have students hack on is geolocation. To this end, I have given a talk on geo hacking:
[Introduction to Geo hacking with (amongst others) Yahoo Technology.](http://www.slideshare.net/cheilmann/introduction-to-geo-hacking-with-amongst-others-yahoo-technology-3388374)
As a follow-up to the talk and to make it easier for students to build geo hacks rather than battling the different APIs, I’ve put together a small JavaScript library that fulfills a lot of geo hacking needs:
- Detecting the visitor’s location with the W3C geo API and with IP as a fallback
- Find geo location from text
- Find location from lat/lon pair
- Find locations in a certain web document (by URL)
- Get the location for a certain IP number Check out the YQL Geo Library demo page and get the YQL Geo Library source on GitHub.
